GIS_Software

• November 9, 2005Human Geography, WebMapping

  Maplecroft maps

  Over on the Digital Divide Network, they mentioned an online interactive map illustrating the digital divide. I went to the website, Maplecroft maps, and found a nice interactive mapping tool […]

• November 9, 2005WebMapping

  Rand McNally MapEngine

  Rand McNally has announced the release of MapEngine, their new web service that will feature the company’s proprietary mapping database. MapEngine is aimed at businesses, and Rand McNally will offer […]

• November 8, 2005WebMapping

  RISK for Google Maps

  That’s right, a Google Maps mash-up of that classic of strategy games, RISK. Check it out here Via Digg.com

• November 7, 2005WebMapping

  Online mapping from the data gatherers’ perspective

  I just finished an article on CNET.com by Elinor Mills that poses the all-important question – why are the route directions and locations often inaccurate. She posed this question to […]

• November 5, 2005General, WebMapping

  Add yourself to the VerySpatial Frappr! community map

  For a while now we have been taking advantage of gVisit to get an idea of where folks are visiting from (around the world) though I seem to have lost […]

• November 3, 2005WebMapping

  Yahoo Maps Beta

  As Jesse noted in a post yesterday, Yahoo has redesigned its online mapping interface and added functionality to try to compete with Google Maps. It is currently in beta, and […]

• November 3, 2005VirtualEnvironments

  NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience

  Check out these pictures of NVIDIA’s Immersive Dome Experience at SIGGRAPH2005. Now that’s 3D visualization! Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne did some cool visualization experiments using FAA flight pattern data […]

• November 2, 2005WebMapping

  Yahoo! Maps, Flash

  I have to admit that I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to Yahoo! Maps lately but I don’t know when it went to Flash. Either way it looks […]

• November 2, 2005GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

  Trends blog does a roundup of 3D

  I stumbled across the Trends blog (by R. Banks) while I doing some searches on 3D visualization, and found a nice roundup titled “3D. What is it Good for?”, which […]

• November 1, 2005GIS_Software

  Intergraph adding 3D visualization to GeoMedia

  Intergraph announced that they will be integrating Skyline Software System’s 3D visualization technology into their GeoMedia product line. It seems that Skyline’s visualization functionality will be embedded directly into the […]